Google Find Results On Other Search Providers Carousel Is Not Human Curated
Back in February 2020, Google due to EU pressure began showing a new carousel box in the EU based search results to show search results from other search providers. The box is named “find results on” and can link you to Yelp, Groupon, Craigslist, and m…
Google: Asking What Schema To Use Is Like Asking A Dictionary Maintainer What To Say
Dan Brickley, a developer advocate at Google who managed Schema.org, had a really great line that I wanted to amplify here. He was asked by a seasoned SEO about which schema one should use in a specific case. In which Dan Brickley replied “that quest…
Google Search Console Drop In Valid But No Change In Invalid Might Not Be Bad
Google’s John Mueller said that if you are seeing “seeing a drop in valid, and not a rise in invalid, that’s possibly just a matter of the sample used for testing becoming smaller for that site.” This is specific to the Search Console structured data …
Google Webspam Report 2020: More Spam, More Blocking, More Of The Same
Google has published its annual webspam report and it is just more of the same. In short, there is more spam, Google is getting better at detecting and thus blocking that spam and of course a bit on the COVID stuff. Here are some bulleted highlights fr…
The Google AdWords API Shutting Down In 362 Days
Google is giving us about a year to switch over from the old Google AdWords API to the newer Google Ads API. The Google Ads API replaced the AdWords API when Google released it as a beta I believe in 2019.
Brands Value Domain Authority Because They Mistakenly Think Google Values DA
There was an interesting thread on Twitter about DA, Moz’s domain authority metrics. In short, a blogger named ChloÃ
Google Doesn’t Generally Suspend Sites From Google Discover
Google’s Paul Bakaus, he is very involved in web stories these days, said on Twitter that at Google “we don’t generally ‘suspend’ sites, and when you fix issues, you are always eligible to reappear.” Truth is, and I posted this reminder before, Google…
Google Boosts Travel Search Tools For A Post Pandemic World
Google announced a few new features in Google Search around travel features specifically as “many people are eager to start planning vacations again,” Google said. Google is getting ready for a post pandemic world with these updates that include new t…
How To Report A Google Search Indexing Issue
Google has a new method to debug and ultimately report indexing issues with Google Search. Google opened up a new form where currently US based site owners can report issues directly to Google around Google Search indexing. This is how it works.
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Google Ads API Version 7.0 Now Available
Google has released version 7.0 of the Google Ads API. This is a jump from version 6.1.0 which was released on April 10, 2021. To use the v7 features, you will need to upgrade your client libraries and client code, Google said.
Google: Do Follow – Rel=”Follow” Is Not A Thing
Google has a few link attributes that allow you to tell Google not to pass any link signals from the link to the site you are linking to. There is the classic rel=”nofollow” and the newer rel=”ugc” and rel=”sponsored”. But no, there is no do follow or…
Google Ads Earnings Up 32% While Microsoft Bing Ads Earnings Up 17%
Both Microsoft (Bing) and Alphabet (Google) announced earnings last night and both had pretty big uplifts with their search advertising revenues and earnings. Microsoft was up 17% for its search advertising revenue category and Google was up 32% for i…
Google Adds More Details To Robots.txt Specifications Help Document
Google has added a bunch of new supporting details to the robots.txt specification document. Jamie Indigo noticed these changes and explained what was added include “explicit details on the files for IDNs, IP-addresses, and port numbered hostnames.”
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Google News Publisher Center Design Updated/Tweaked
Google has made design updates to the Google News Publisher Center. I don’t know if new functionality was added, it does not appear so, but maybe I am missing something. I’ll be honest, I do not use the publisher center that often, so I’m really not s…
The Layer On Top Of Google Search Web Rendering Service
There is an interesting tidbit you can learn about Google’s web rendering service (WRS) in the latest JavaScript SEO hangout with Martin Splitt of Google where Martin said he is “spilling the beans a little bit” by sharing that there is a layer on top …
Google Image Searches Box With Bell Icon For Updates
Saad also spotted back in March Google testing showing that bell icon feature directly in the image search carousel box. The bell icon lets you tell Google you are interested in being pushed information about that topic via Google Discover and maybe G…
Google Search Results For Products Get Larger
On the coattails of the Google product reviews update, the Google product search results features seem to be getting larger. Saad AK and Glenn Gabe, amongst others, have shared numerous screen shots of the new product boxes in Google Search.
John Mueller Of Google: SEO Lives & Dies With Consistency
Google’s John Mueller reiterated on Twitter that consistency is the number one piece of SEO advice. He said last night that “SEO lives and dies with consistency.”
Microsoft Bing Tests Related Search Suggestions In Sticky Footer
Frank Sandtmann, an SEO consultant, sent me a screen capture of Microsoft Bing testing showing query refinements and search suggestions in a sticky footer user interface. As you scroll down the search results Bing shows you these “results related to” s…
Google Tests More Specific Searches Box
Can you be more specific says Google Search with this new “more specific searches” box in the search results. Mordy Oberstein was being super vague with Google and Google shot back at him to be more specific and even gave him a list of samples on how t…